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Month: January 2016

Each month, nomis, a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, publishes a report that records the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and National Insurance credits at Jobcentre Plus local offices. This is not an official measure of unemployment, but is the only indicative statistic available for areas smaller than Local Authorities.

Latest Figures

The latest figures show that 1,698 people in the Isle of Wight area were claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) during December 2015.

The figures show a considerable rise of 161 since November 2015, when there were 1,537 JSA claimants, and a considerable decrease of 272 from December 2014 (1,970 claimants).

Of this month’s total amount, 1095 applicants were male (significantly up 100 on last month, considerably down 204 on this time last year) and 603 female, (considerably up 61 on last month, considerably down 68 on this time last year).

The percentage rate of persons claiming JSA for the Isle of Wight region in December 2015 was 2.17%, based on 1,698 claimants and population aged 16-64 of 78,100 (Oct 2014-Sep 2015 figure).

The percentage rate of persons claiming JSA for the United Kingdom region in December 2015 was 1.55%, based on 630,138 claimants and population aged 16-64 of 40,697,500 (Oct 2014-Sep 2015 figure).

Flow Report

nomis also publish flow figures, a monthly count of claimants who either a) were claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (stocks) on the count date, b) ended a claim (off-flows) during the previous accounting month or c) started a new claim (on-flows) during the previous accounting month.

Flows for the last month in the Isle of Wight area showed an on-flow of 427 claimants and off-flow of 261, resulting in a stock total of 1698 claimants.

This corresponded to 259 males joining and 157 leaving (resulting in 1095 male claimants on the count date) and 168 females joining, with 104 leaving, (leaving 603 female claimants on the count date).

Choropleth map showing claimant rate as a proportion of the total population in the area aged 16-64.

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